Interesting. Having worked with OSM recently, getting rid of the hassle of setting up your own OSM server is certainly a bonus, but part of the beauty of going through that pain is that you have full control over the output schema you choose to generate. You also have control over update schedule - with this solution, unless you explicitly extracted into a separate table the periodic updates could potentially corrupt a derived product, unless I am missing something. A final consideration is that cloud isn't an option for certain customers.
Continuing innovation in OSM is exciting though, I dont want to be too hard on this.
Anything that lowers the barrier to entry for playing around or making one-offs with this kind of data is really cool. I'll definitely have to try this out a bit.
Continuing innovation in OSM is exciting though, I dont want to be too hard on this.